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Above the Fold

Issue 3: The Art of the Dumpling

$20.00 USD
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Direct sales are available for US-based orders only; Issue 3 will be available for sale in Canada, the UK, and Europe through Antenne Books later in August. 

Above the Fold's Issue 3 pays homage to the aesthetic beauty and craft inherent to dumplings, as well as the artists for whom the dumpling is their muse.

"Because if dumplings existed only for the absorption of nutrients and calories, numerous cultural practitioners wouldn’t have honed their skills over centuries to hand-tweeze them into flowers and birds or press them into hand-carved wooden molds, transmuting them into glistening tortoise shells," says this issue's welcome note.

"They wouldn’t carefully pleat them into plump, braided teardrops, stain them deliberately with saffron and beet juice and butterfly pea flower, or insist that they must be made so tiny as to fit 40 on a single spoon." All of these dumplings, and so many more, warrant examination, and celebration. And that's exactly what this issue is all about. 

This 72-page, full-color publication includes:
  • On-location reporting that spotlights dumpling producers in Curitiba, Brazil, and Fuzhou, China
  • A 16-page "art gallery in print" showcasing the work, and artist statements, of dumpling-makers based in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Estonia, Mexico, Japan, and more. 
  • Examinations of the intersections between dumplings and performance art, social practice art, and sculpture
  • First-person essays exploring dumplings in the afterlife, preserving kueh-making in Taiwan, and the manti newspaper that circulated at the 2022 Istanbul Biennial
  • Elaborately crafted ravioli and Royal Thai dumplings
  • And so much more!